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about anyone who is willing to give up the use of a car and turn to a bike. Commuters(通勤者) can leave the stress of blocked downtown traffic at the car park. Tourists can enjoy walking without having trouble with more bus transfers, taxi fares and sore feet. And Mother Nature gets the benefit of a little bit less smog after a weekday to and from work. But what is in it for the city? What is it that is promoting cities all across the globe to adopt bike sharing programs as a reliable way to strengthen its transportation systems between cities? To answer those questions, we looked at Seattle, the Northwest US’s largest city and the most recent to adopt bike sharing. Seattle, which has obtained many acknowledgements over the years for its efforts to support sustainability, has a reputation for promoting advanced transportation options. Its local bus system, rail and private car sharing systems almost seamlessly(無(wú)縫地) with insidecity services, making it about as painless as possible for muters to leave their cars at home. Attractively redesigned waterfront areas, good guide signs and streamlined traffic control keep traffic jams to a minimum. “We do encourage a variety of options for movability for transportation for getting around the city,” Tom Rasmussen said, who serves on the Seattle City Council and as the chair to the city’s transportation mittee. He said it not only makes getting around a large city like Seattle more convenient, but it’s good exercise for those who use the program. 21. What can we learn from the first paragraph? A. People in cities like to drive their cars to work. B. People like to use sharing bikes in the cities nowadays. C. Sharing bikes are difficult to promote in big cities. D. Not all people in the cities accept sharing bikes. 22. Why does the author take Seattle for example? A. It’s a very large city with busy traffic. B. Bike sharing causes more trouble in Seattle. C. Bike sharing has strengthened its transportation system. D. Traffic measures will be changed much there. 23. What does “the program” in the last paragraph refer to? A. The downtown traffic. B. The private car sharing. C. The guiding system. D. The bike sharing. 24. What could be the best title for the text? A. The benefits of bike sharing programs B. Bike sharing programs in Seattle C. The traffic problems in big cities D. Supporting or opposing bike sharing B When people have been through a negative experience, they tend to use the word “you” rather than “I” when talking about it, researchers have found. The study, by researchers based at the University of Michigan, conducted nine experiments with nearly 2,500 to understand the meaning behind the use of the word “you” in the context of speaking about and sharing insight on their own experiences. “It’s something we all do as a way to explain how things work and to find meaning in our lives,” said Ariana Orvell, a researcher in the Department of Psychology. “When people use ‘you’ to make meaning from negative experiences, it allows them to normalize the experience and reflect on it from a distance,” she said. For example, when people use the phrase “you win some, you lose some”, it indicates that a person has failed in a situation, but by using the word “you”, they’re expressing that the experience they went through could happen to anyone, said Ms Orvell. “Or saying that ‘when you are angry, you say and do things that you will most likely regret’ might actually explain a personal situation, but the individual attempts to make it something many people relate to,” Ms Orvell said. In one of the experiments, the researchers asked participants to write about a personal experience. They had to write something from a negative event. They used the word “you” many times. The research also found that using the word “you” led people to view the event as being more distant. “We suspect that it’s the ability to move beyond your own perspective(視角) to express shared, universal experiences that allows individuals to get broader meanings from personal events,” Orvell said. 25. What is the purpose of researchers’ conducting nine experiments? A. To study students’ language in the University of Michigan. B. To know the reason behind when people use “you”. C. To let people share their personal insight. D. To learn the real meaning behind the experiences. 26. People like to use “you” when talking about a negative experience probably because ______. A. they do not really care about what they are speaking about B. they would like the others to have the same experience C. they know the negative experience can make them strong D. they will think the bad experience is normal seen from a distance 27. What might people say if they didn’t succeed as expected according to the text? A. When angry, you say and do things you’ll regret. B